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Date Posted: 08:47:26 07/31/01 Tue
Author: SM78
Subject: Attn Drunks: A follow up to Steve's cartoon.
In reply to: SteveH 's message, "I actually appreciate the info" on 20:12:44 07/30/01 Mon

Steve: I found the question of "to wound or not to wound" to be intriguing. A check of my art coffeetable books shows a uniform consistency: Throughout art history Jesus is depicted w/o the wound while alive on the Cross and w/the wound after he is dead and his head is slumped forward, so this verifies my initial thought.

Although I am no longer a Christian, having resigned my faith many years ago after I discovered my tithes were being spent rather than going into a matching 401K program as I had thought (I was young), I still retain the characteristics of my biblical training. Because I had an emphasis in apologetics, I was taught to scan everything for details and errors. It is a method of training and that is how it is drilled into your head. Hence, my involuntary tendency to be a Christian even though I am not a Christian.

Anyway, while thinking about your cartoon, I had a really perverse idea for another cartoon. It may be too obtuse, but here it is. Remember the photo of Oswald grimacing as the bullet from Jack Ruby's gun tears through him? What if you took Lee Harvey Oswald's face and put it on the body of Jesus as the spear is piercing his side?

The caption under the panel would read: "For God took the sinless Christ and poured into him our sins. Then, in exchange, he poured God's goodness into us." II Cor, 5:21, The Living Bible.

The long ball I am trying to hit in the cartoon -- and I think people who get it will find it to be artful, even elegant in it's meaning -- is that Jesus became the despised object in God's eyes into whom God poured out his wrath, and what more of a despised object is there in our modern age than Lee Harvey Oswald? The likening of Christ to Oswald plays to scripture and challenges the believer to truly understand the depths to which their God hates mankind. Their God hates mankind so much, that he is the figurative Jack Ruby killing Oswald, the scapegoat in a conspiracy, even as Jesus became the scapegoat who had to die as a result of the Luciferian conspiracy to steal man from God via sin.

Moreover, the moment of the Jesus' death is frozen in time in terms of God's wrath even as the photo is frozen in time, where it forever serves as an archive of a pivotal moment that changed modern history.

Christ-cum-Oswald is thus the universally hated object in the moment of his death, and if Christians can't get this, then they must be goddamned idiots, as Colonel O'Dell might say. I think it would be a brilliant, challenging cartoon.

E. Percival Looper is a similiar challenge because he asks believers to open their hearts wide enough to accept a minister with a neurological disease. Christians would not accept such a man in the pulpit because, like their God in the Old Testament, they do not want a diseased man in the Temple. To this point, let me tell you that when you hear how OPB has given Percy a voice on the CD, you will be chilled to the bone after you get done laughing hysterically. OPB's tragicomic interpretation of Percy is pure genius. I heard the track again yesterday. It is funny and then becomes exceptionally disturbing.

I ask the Bar to comment on my Oswald-Chist idea. How does it strike you?

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